My favourite poem is by Jenner Jacob’s. When I’m an old women……. I will wear purple.
It tells about the latter stage of life, when you reach the phase of not caring what anyone thinks of you. You are obliged to perform silly behaviours, like wearing slippers in the rain,running your cane along picket fences, learning to spit.
I love that poem too! I once read it on a bathroom wall and thought, I am excited to be old and to be a part of a community of people who’ve seen enough to know the importance of being silly.
My favourite poem is by Jenner Jacob’s. When I’m an old women……. I will wear purple.
It tells about the latter stage of life, when you reach the phase of not caring what anyone thinks of you. You are obliged to perform silly behaviours, like wearing slippers in the rain,running your cane along picket fences, learning to spit.
I love that poem too! I once read it on a bathroom wall and thought, I am excited to be old and to be a part of a community of people who’ve seen enough to know the importance of being silly.
I love you lots!
Stormy pinkness
Human weakness
Fills my johnny cup with gloom
Your progression
My digression
Forty days this afternoon
The things we cherish are small indeed
So much the larger the need
Stormy pinkness
Set me thanklessly free
By John Linnell (from They Might Be Giants (okay, you got me, this is a They Might Be Giants song but you can't say its also NOT a poem!))